We put down slates on the floor in our hall some time ago, and this has left a space of about 8mm under the front door. What is the best way of dealing with this?
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Wind under front door
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I think you could:
a) Glue a bit on the bottom of the door - the sheds sell hardwood and softwood strips of rectangular section, varying thicknesses;
b) Fit a brush strip to the door - these are OK to a point;
c) Be very old fashioned and use a door snake to keep out the draughts;
(a) is probably the best - any reason it is not practical?
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Tim
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Put a threshold draught excluder there. You might have to take another
10 or 15 mm off. It depends on what you can get. A couple of screwsa nd some silicon mastic and the job's a good un.- Vote on answer
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Glue or Tack a 1"to2" piece of carpet on the bottom back of the door.
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d) Train a dachshund to lie along the bottom of the door.
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Don't stop all draught though.
they're still beingsold as fashion accessories.
Yeuch!
They need to be fed.
(a) is best except that some people are chary about removing and rehanging a door.
Mary
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If the gap's big enough they can snack on passing cats.
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If the cats are small enough.
Mary
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Well start breeding a supply of small cats to keep the door-dachs happy.
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One of those brush-type draft excluding strips.
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but it is not all that effective.
One problem is that the slates have raised the floor level, which is now up to the wooden bottom of the door frame - I forget what that is called, sill? - which stopped the wooden flap we used to have on the door from working.
Maybe a better brush strip is the answer.
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No thanks. I used to be a cat person. No longer.
Mary
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Did they go off you?
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No, that's why I went off them.
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As Weatherlawyer says - get a proper threshold draught excluder. Brushes are all very well but for a constantly being used door they wear out pretty rapidly. A proper threshold excluder is an Aluminium extrusion that fits to the door cill. Another extrusion fits to the outside of the door and interlocks with the cill piece to eliminate the draught when the door is closed - it also is shaped to throw rain running down the door clear of the cill. There is a slight increase in the cill height but it's never given anyone here a problem.
Rob
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That sounds like a good system. Do you have a pointer to this device? My local DIY store did not know of it.
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a good range.
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There's another type of door seal that requires nothing on the door sill. When the door is open, the seal is held up by a spring. When the door closes, a small cam on the latch side of the doorway pushes the seal down. It works even over carpet. I didn't know that anyone used any other type of seal :)
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$defaultview/0DFC536E4AC63496E9256B6D00264629If that doesn't work, look for a Raven Seal model RP3